Where: Sublette County, Wyoming (43.3° N, 110.4° W: paleocoordinates 48.9° N, 92.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chappo Member (Wasatch Formation), Clarkforkian (56.2 - 54.9 Ma)
• "early Wasatchian-Graybull equivalent (probably early Graybull)... Hoback formation" (Dorr 1958) but Clarkforkian and Chappo Member according to later authors
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; concretionary, ferruginous, brown, silty shale
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Collection methods: quarrying,
• collected by "hand removal" (quarrying) (Dorr 1958)
Primary reference: J. A. Dorr, Jr. 1958. Prouintatherium, new uintathere genus, earliest Eocene, Hoback Formation, Wyoming, and the phylogeny of Dinocerata. Journal of Paleontology 32(3):506-516 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 15076: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |